La cura dello sguardo

La cura dello sguardo
(the care of the gaze)

Curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis/Elisa Decet
a collaboration with Musei delle Regole di Cortina d’Ampezzo
Paleontological museum “Rinaldo Zardini”
August the 3rd – September the 1st 2013
extended until September the 29th

opening Saturday, August the 3rd at 6:30 pm

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Artists: Gabriele Grones, Patte Loper, Elena Mazzi, Valentina Merzi, Maria Francesca Tassi
 
For the second consecutive year, Dolomiti Contemporanee and the Regole of Ampezzo Museums resume their collaboration, with the exhibit “La cura dello sguardo”, at the Paleontological Museum. The themes of this exhibit are connected to different aspects of the mountainous territory, and to its human-social-anthropic practices. Inside this cultural perspective a reflection on the contemporary dimension of nature and environment is carried out, as per the general concept of DC013.
Working for the building of new images of contemporary nature means refuting the proliferation of clichés typical of a nature intended in a stereotypical way. In this sense, we gladly talk about a verticality of approach, about climbing attitudes. With such expressions one means to underline how the cultural (and physical) practice of the mountain, and its reflection on it,  are made of research and exploration, and that they proceed through actions and peaks, and not by uncritical apologies and nostalgic contemplations. The mountain of the past isn’t the (only) focus: a contribution is made towards the codification of a contemporary mountain. The Paleontological Museum is an extremely apt location to highlight the bond between culture and environment, tradition and innovation. It is the keeper of the origins of the Conca Ampezzana’s beauty , and the witness of the work of those who, like Rinaldo Zardini, were able to understand its deepest implications. Thus, the artists have the chance to face with an institution well-established in the territory and with its cultural and landscape-oriented richness. All of that aimed to put  in interaction a collection that keeps on growing with new recoveries and the experimentation of contemporary artists, whose research is based on the innovative reinterpretation of our society. The central theme is the palaeontology, meant not only from a scientific perspective, but by its socio-cultural implications. The territory as a forger of cultures, the culture as a resource for the territory. The climbing attitudes are those made of tensions that lead the human to move and explore the space, creating a mean of verticality. This inclination is shared by the artist and mountaineer: a need directed to the research and the reinterpretation of the world that surrounds them. A push upwards, meant as a mark longed for (not necessarily one that can has to be reached), to free oneself from the mere constraint of the human paralysis/human horizontality. Exactly to underline this strong and mutual interconnection human-territory, the presence of the artists in Cortina is actualized through a Residence as well, in which Elena Mazzi and Valentina Merzi, two artists of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, take part. The partnership between the Mario Rimoldi Museum and Dolomiti Contemporanee, has lead to another result, this year. In the past two years, the Mario Rimoli Museum has inaugurate a new line, allotting attention and space to the Contemporary. The project of collaboration with DC involves the selection of the artworks of some of the artists taking part to the planned exhibits and the subsequent admission of them to the permanent Collection of the Rimoldi. This way, the Museum’s politics for the acquisition of artworks factually opens itself to the Contemporary.


Supported by: Dolomiti UNESCO Foundation, Bevilacqua La Masa Venezia Foundation

A collaboration with: Mario Rimoldi Modern Art Museum

Galleries: The Flat – Massimo Carasi Milan